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French digraphs and trigraphs have both historical and phonological origins. In the first case, it is a vestige of the spelling in the word's original language (usually Latin or Greek) maintained in modern French, e.g. the use of ph in téléphone , th in théorème , or ch in chaotique .
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes.Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
French Braille is the original braille alphabet, ... (1942). Most accented letters of the 1829 version have been replaced with digraphs, but these are not used today.
Spelling and punctuation before the 16th century was highly erratic, but the introduction of printing in 1470 provoked the need for uniformity.. Several Renaissance humanists (working with publishers) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs (1550).
French underwent monophthongization and so the digraph ai , which formerly represented a diphthong, represents the sound /ɛ/ or /e/ in Modern French. Similarly, the digraph au and trigraph eau represent the monophthong /o/ due to the same process.
In Old French, a language that had no [kʰ] or [x] and represented [k] by c, k, or qu, ch began to be used to represent the voiceless palatal plosive [c], which came from [k] in some positions and later became [tʃ] and then [ʃ]. Now the digraph ch is used for all the aforementioned sounds, as shown
Common digraphs and trigraphs: Vowels digraphs: au, ai, ei, ou. ... Frequent English or French loanwords (depending on colonial history) Tongan (lea fakatonga)